Sorry for not following the bug template, but I wanted to use a more narrative description than the "observed/expected" thing. I have a "quality-of-life" suggestion that would improve my Dolphin usage considerably. When in Details view, I usually am sorted alphabetically (A at the top, Z at the bottom), but sometimes click on the Modified column header because I want to see the latest files. However by default, clicking on this column puts the oldest files at the top and the newest at the bottom, so I have to click on the Modified column header again to reverse the sort. This happens often enough that it can be quite a "paper cut". Similarly, clicking on the Size column header puts the smallest files at the top, but usually I'm looking for big files to delete and would prefer those at the top, so again I have to click the column header twice. Please note that I am *not* about to propose that the default behaviour when clicking those column headings be changed just to accommodate my preferences, as I'm sure that won't suit other people (if they want to see the oldest or smallest files first). And, I am not about to propose settings for preferred default sort order. My proposal is for each column to "remember" its last sort order (e.g. small-to-large, or large-to-small), and to use that sort order when you next single-click the column heading. That way people can sort things how they wish, and clicking the header multiple times will reverse the sort just as it currently does, but when you switch from sorting by one column to another, sorting will return to the previously-used sort order used by that column, rather than always using small-to-large/oldest-to-newest etc. I think that if this was implemented it would likely not even be noticed by most users, as it would hopefully seem natural, but it would be the sort of usability improvement that would make their lives a little better without them realising! Thanks for reading. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230620 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.3.7-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ProBook 450 G4
Your suggestion would be better for my workflow as well. Especially considering that in many cases it is sort of arbitrary what sorting ascending or descending even means for things like date etc. The last used/preferred sort order of a column could be saved as a Dolphin-wide preference. I wonder though how many users have a different way of looking at sorting order. Maybe many do have a clear idea about what ascending and descending sort order is and are surprised when clicking a column sometimes orders one way and sometimes the other way depending on how they sorted a few days ago. There might even be users who sort so often in their day that they already learnt to double-click some columns when they want to order descending or only click them once for ascending. For those, such a change would slow them down because they suddenly can't know anymore if they need to click once or twice to end up in an ascending/descending sort order. For these reasons, it seems quite difficult for me to figure out if this would be a good change overall. For people that don't sort quite as often, I would guess that it would be an improvement.